The Ministry of the Gas Industry (Mingazprom; russian: Министерство газовой промышленности СССР) was a
government ministry
Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level executive bodies in the machinery of governments that manage a specific sector of public administration." Энцикло ...
in the
Soviet Union
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responsible for the Soviet oil industry and related sectors.
It was created in 1957 as the Main Administration for the Gas Industry; renamed State Production Committee for the Gas Industry in 1963. It received its ministerial title in 1965.
In 1989
Gazprom
PJSC Gazprom ( rus, Газпром, , ɡɐzˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. As of 2019, with sales over $120 billion, it was ranked as the large ...
was established as a successor to the ministry. After the
collapse of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
in 1991, assets outside of Russia were transferred to national companies such as
Ukrgazprom and
Turkmengazprom.
List of ministers
''Source'':
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Aleksei Kortunov (2.10.1965 - 20.9.1972)
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Sabit Orujov (20.9.1972 - 10.5.1981)
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Vasili Dinkov (10.5.1981 - 13.2.1985)
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Viktor Chernomyrdin
Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (russian: Ви́ктор Степа́нович Черномы́рдин, ; 9 April 19383 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Gas Industry of the Soviet Unio ...
(13.2.1985 - 17.7.1989)
References
Gas Industry
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